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If you have space, a calm corner is a great addition to your counseling office. It provides a safe place where students
Empower students to escape negative thinking traps by guiding them to reframe negative thoughts. Once students identify these cognitive distortions, real change
A day in the life of a school counselor is never easy. We never know what’s going to come our way, and
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Books and Resources for Bullying Prevention Lessons
Bullying is something school counselors address in whole class lessons, small groups, individual counseling, and in quick emergency sessions. It is helpful to have books and resources for bullying prevention lessons and conversations you can pull off the shelf whenever you need them. What’s on your list? Check out these Confident Counselors’ suggestions and share
In a perfect non-counseling duties would not be part of our schedule. There can be an upside to tasks that do not
It is important that students make social-emotional progress and our lessons and counseling sessions are supposed to help them get there. Without
What do you do for back to school night or open house at your school? Do you give a presentation, visit classrooms,
Counseling Activities with Everyday items
5 School Counseling Activities Using Play Doh
Counselor Keri
Students light up the moment Play Doh appears in any school setting, and school counseling is no exception. Play Doh is not only a great sensory tool that puts students at ease when discussion potentially difficult topics, but it is the perfect creative outlet to engage students in individual and small group counseling to
At Confident Counselors, we love using materials we have at school or home for school counseling crafts. We've used coffee filters and tissue boxes, and now we've found what to do with those ...
We at Confident Counselors are a thrifty bunch and love nothing better than to find new counseling activities that incorporate items we already have on hand. Last time I wrote ...
Inspired by reading Counselor Keri’s “Five Ways To Use Coffee Filters In School Counseling,” I excitedly went through my resources and office supplies to create and share 5 ways counselors ...
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Teaching Resilience – 6 Tools to Bring Your Lessons To Life
Pawsitive School Counselor
Resilience is one of my favorite topics to teach and one of my favorite small groups to run. I always include goal setting, identifying problems, coping skills, healthy habits, and positive relationships as components of
Every year there are students with challenging behaviors that disrupt, well, everything. Daily crises take over your schedule and they seem unresponsive to intervention plans. Teachers and staff are exhausted. ...
Incorporating technology in school counseling can really engage students, but sometimes it can be hard to figure out how to use it in simple ways. Some Confident Counselors have great ...
As a school counselor, teachers frequently come to me for advice on classroom management. Almost always, they are looking for self control strategies for students struggling in their classrooms. They ...
